handcar
/hand-kahr/US // ˈhændˌkɑr //
手车,手摇车,手拉车,手推车
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a small railroad car or platform on four wheels propelled by a mechanism worked by hand, used on some railroads for inspecting tracks and transporting workers.
Examples
He made a jump off the right-of-way, and as the handcar flashed by he watched its flight from the covert of a weed tangle.
He was thus engaged when the handcar rattled over the bridge.
The section men had even got upon their handcar and were pumping away up the east-bound track.
There was nobody left in the cut, and both the train and the handcar on which the section hands had traveled, were out of sight.
The crippled one was helped aboard of the handcar, Zeph joined them, and the handcar sped away.
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